Dinner Tonight

We were so revved up for the "challenge" of eating 25% of our food over the next three months as wild foraged foods that we decided to start tonight with a preview.

For dinner, we made pizza, admittedly with purchased flour and oils, but using my garlic scapes to make a pesto. The recipe was a handful of garlic scapes, a mixture of olive and walnut oils, some of my dried hot peppers from last year, some parmesan and sharp provolone, and topped with sharp cheddar. It was delicious.

For vegetable we had cat tails with garlic butter. Yummy, yummy, yummy! And dessert was elderberry flower fritters dipped in sugar. The consensus was that we should try to sell them.

OK, so there was a lot of purchased components in that meal... but it was delicious, for sure. I think next time we would use honey or maple syrup to sweeten the fritters. The oils have to be from our food stores since we don't have a way to produce it. If food production were shut off, we have to find a substitute, I guess it would be butter and animal fats again, with some small amounts of nut oils.

I will try to post pictures later, as all that wading in the marsh has us tired, and our full bellies are making us go to bed soon.